SXSW Saturday 17th

1:15 holloways emos
2:10 shitdisco Beauty Bar
3:00 Blanche
3:50 Foals Bootleg BBQ mean eyed cat
4:50 Bat for Lashes
5:30 The wombats Latitude 30 The liverpool Party
8:00 My latest Novel buffalo billiards
8:50 The Watson Twins Cedar St courtyard
9:30 The electric soft Parade
10:30 Tilly and The Wall Beauty Bar Ptio
11:20 The Pipettes
12:00 Stoney the Tap room
12:45 Mumm-ra Red 7 Patio

I need to give details but I am currently exhausted and need to get to the softball BBQ

SXSW Friday 16th

Why isnt the world here? such an amazing time!
12:30 The hot Puppies Welsh Party Latitude 30
1:00 Winterkids at the SESAC stage
2:00 The Hedrons Scottish Party Lava Lounge
2:30 Jo Mango
3:00 Emma Pollock
4:00 Delorentos Irish Party BD Rileys
4:30 Air Traffic
5:15 Scissors For Lefty San Fran Party Spiros
7:00 The Cinematics Industry of Music Party O'Fados Pub
7:30 Thomas Dolby Industry of Music Tent 4th St
8:45 Hot Club De Paris The Blind Pig (Camel Party)
9:15 The Eames Era BD Rileys
10:00 The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
12:00 The Pigeon Detectives Club DeVille
1:00 The Blood Arm

SXSW Thursday 16th

Oh boy, this was a busy one!
1:30 The Pipettes at Fader
2:05 Jeremy Warmsley at Transgressive
3:00 Foals at transgressive
3:50 Pete and the Prates at Fader
5:00 The Wombats The Planetary group Party
Break for BBQ-Thanks New Zealand!
all the following at the Karma Lounge
8:00 Plan B
8:40 errors
9:05 The Rumble Strips
10:00 Jack Penate
11:00 Fujiya & Miyagi
12:00 Sunshine underground
1:00 The Holloways.

Lets see what today brings!

SXSW 2007

So its here, without
forward, russia, Battle, houdouken!, the KBC, enter shikari, Little man tate, Yes boss and the view amongst others.

Wednesday
Little radio show red eyed fly
Bloodcut love 1pm- (we were getting a beer they were ok)
NME BBQ stubbs
3:45 The young Knives
4:30 Mumm-Ra Both stunning
Little radio show
5:15 Peter bjorn and John
Fader 400 4th st
6:20 Hot Club De Paris
Evening
NME show stubbs
8:00 The sunshine underground good
9:00 The automatic amusing
10:00 Jamie T
The Mohawk Patio
10:45 The twilight sad wonderful music strange stage presence
creekside hilton
12:00 Secretary bird (filler for J.Wo)
1:00 am J wo. Wonderfully intimate- you gotta love it!
1:00 am

must catch up

I should write for hours on the concerts I have been to but life is too nuts.
Synopsis
Paolo Nutini,
saw him do Conan O'Brien, one song at Paul Weller and the Paradise.
Stand up straight boy and look folks in the eye. He came over as a demented sub-normal creep until the paradise show. Not sure what the problem is but when he gets going there is a pretty face under there and a decent performer. The voice and songs, well what can you say, Paolo your voice is like an angel and limited though your songs are. I do love them. But I think he is destined for hype and huge venues- alas poor Paolo once I knew of you.
Lily Allen. (Sunday 18th Feb 2007 Axis)
Lily is what she is, or is she Lily plus, oh how the rumors wirl about her putative pregnancy. There is nothing original here. BUT she does have a great voice, is a bitch and a half (thats a plus in my book) and the songs are catchy even if they rip off other tunes right left and centre. And I just Love 'Nan, your a window shopper' - do you think anyone in her family talks to her?
Razorlight (Sunday 25h Feb 2007 Middle East Downstairs)
Got there early and managed to be at the front. Absolutely nothing offensive about Mohair but then nothing to make me go out of my way to go to their next gig.
So Razorlight. Always a band i have been ambivalent about, a little guilty about taking a front row place but what the heck. If nothing else in sub-zero temps it gives you a place to put your coat.
So Johnny comes out wearing poured on white jeans, yes we know which side you dress on Johnny and then some. The vneck shirt looks thin enough to be transparent and the low vneck is not flattering. A bad case of channelling Freddie Mercury. Within two songs off came the t-shirt. I know Johnny bats for the other team but this was a semi-porn experience.... The jeans only started after the pubic arrow of har had started and after the curve of muscle that curves down to the groin. This was a fully fledged mating display- totally distracting and if anyone wants photos I took closeups!
But to the music, the stage show was entertaining and the music well played, I find some razorlight songs slightly the same but I enjoyed the night and as long as they play venues this size would find myself buying tickets again.

MC Lars (Tuesday 27th Feb 2007 Middle East Upstairs)
Lars was doing a support slot upstairs at the Middle East. We got ther about ten minutes before he came on then left about five mnutes after he came off. He did the show to a slide show projector from his MAC and was the normal consumate performer. I have a real soft spot for LARS and would love to have the chance to see him do a show twice as long. Under his comedy his songs have some real biting points to make and i love that too.
Songs played that I remember, Signing Emo, Hot Topic, Krunk Rock, Hot Topic is not punk Rock, 21 concepts,I Generation, The Raven. This is about the only rap I stand. Love you Lars!
Bright Eyes and M.Ward
(Wednesday 28th Feb 2007 Somerville Theatre)
As an opener M. Ward was bearable and while not my style i opened my mind and tried to see what he was about, when he played with Bright Eyes I could have strangled him - cheerfully.
Bright Eyes- he was Bright Eyes, voice that entrances me, songs that I feel I should like more than I do, oddity to the max. Worth it but not quite sure what I saw.

The Cribs- Boston May 5th

Absolutely great news- The Cribs just announced they will be playing Boston May 4th. The Middle East no word as to whether it is upstairs or downstairs. It should be downstairs as they are just amazing but then they have played Great Scott it hasnt been as busy as it could be.
They also play New York the 2nd and 3rd, yes I am tempted oh so tempted. Crib addiction is so harsh. I just know that I will be getting tickets as soon as possible. Evil thoughts like buy all the tickets and have an intimate evening with the Cribs- wouldnt that be fun. Imagaine it. I would like 600 tickets please! Yes 600! Paper a room with the tickets and just smile! Hey $6000 isnt so bad.......

Recent Concerts

So back to the safe.
On Monday the 29th thru the 31st I saw a Paul Weller play Irving Plaza in NY. Much vaunted as three very different nights a certain amount of hysteria ensued after the anouncement of a Jam, Style Council and Paul Weller Night. People paid huge amounts of money and many many folks flew in from the UK and from all around the US. As it turned out Paul is still not able to deal with the lagacy of The Jam. I get the idea that he feels that by not playing an evening of The Jam and the Style council he kept his integrity. I don't agree - he still by inaction condoned the marketing of these evenings, in fact by condioning the selling of such evenings while he knew he would not actually doing it he sold out his sell out.
Paul- if you had integrity you would not have sold these tickets you would have cancelled and resold as three Paul Weller nights. I am sorry you are arrogant and dismissive of your fans. A musical genius its true but an arrogant self-obsesses unlikeale person non the less.
That said to hear 'The butterfly collector', 'Tales from the riverbank' and 'speak like a child' was heartbreakingly wonderful. but 6 hours of Paul lets just say I have had a glut.
The sets
SYMBOLS: *Paul Weller | "Style Council | ^The Jam

PAUL WELLER | IRVING PLAZA | JANUARY 31, 2007
Science* / Peacock Suit* / Into Tomorrow* / From The Floorboards Up* / Paper Smile* / Savages* / Fly Little Bird* / Wildwood* / Up in Suzie's Room* / All The Pictures On The Wall* / Above The Clouds* / Hung Up* / Porcelain Gods* / Walk On Gilded Splinters* / Wishing On A Star* / Roll Along Summer* / Butterfly Collector^ / Here's The Good News* / You Do Something To Me* / Broken Stones* / Changing Man* / Whirlpools End* // Come on Let's Go* // Thick As Thieves^ // I Wanna Make It Alright* // Sunflower* // Town Called Malice^

PAUL WELLER | IRVING PLAZA | JANUARY 30, 2007
Its a very Deep Sea" / Headstart For Happiness" / Speak Like A Child" / Down In The Seine" / Man Of Great Promise" / My Ever Changing Moods" / Long Hot Summer" / Shout To The Top* / Peacock Suit* / Out Of The Sinking* / From The Floorboards Up* / Into Tomorrow* / Above The Clouds* / Amongst Butterflies* / Porcelain Gods* / Walk on Gilded Splinters* / Butterfly Collector^ / Thinking of You (With Paolo Nuttini)* / That's Entertainment^ / Here's the Good News* / Broken Stones* / Changing Man* / Foot of the Mountain* // Come On Let's Go* // I Wanna Make It Alright* // Town Called Malice^

PAUL WELLER | IRVING PLAZA | JANUARY 29, 2007
Shopping^ / Tales from a Riverbank^ / Carnation^ / English Rose^ / That's Entertainment^ / Man in the Corner Shop^ / Thick as Thieves^ / In the Crowd^ / From the Floor Boards Up* / Paper Smile* / All the Pictures on the Wall* / Above the Clouds* / Running on the Spot^ / Porcelain Gods* / I Walk on Gilded Splinters* / Wildwood* / Savages* / Fly Little Bird* / Pebble and the Boy* / Broken Stones* / You Do Something to Me* / Come On Let's Go* / Changing Man* / Foot of the Mountain* // I Wanna Make It Alright* // Sunflower* // Town Called Malice^